Paternal exposure not to blame
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 367 (6465), 678-680
- https://doi.org/10.1038/367678a0
Abstract
The "Gardner hypothesis" suggests that an excess of childhood leukaemia near a nuclear reprocessing plant is caused by paternal exposure to ionizing radiation. But the evidence shows that this explanation is wrongThis publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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